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	Hey everybody, Buck Sexton here in for Rush on the EIB.
	Show is flying by today.
	Really enjoying my time with you.
	Thank you so much for joining.
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	Let's have a chat.
	So the Trump campaign has gone from last week disarray was the word the media was using all week into this week the shakeup.
	And you've got Bannon from Breitbart as the chief executive officer, or I forget what the exact title is, kind of the top guy of the Trump campaign now.
	Uh you have Kellyanne Conway, who's also very senior in the campaign manager, but not the chief executive, whatever.
	However they're they're structuring this thing.
	It's like who has more power in a certain country, the president or the prime minister, I guess it all depends.
	Um but yeah, they are they are the two people who have been put at the top of the Trump campaign.
	And look, it's it's been a rough couple of weeks for Trump.
	Uh I think you can blame some of it on well, some of it on the apparatus itself, buying ads and doing things like that.
	I know it's kinda it's kind of old school, but it's probably a good idea.
	He has shown an ability to raise large sums of of cash.
	Uh the Trump campaign can pull together money when they want to, but they also keep giving or see, this is this becomes a chicken and an egg issue.
	Is it that the Trump campaign continuously gives slow pitches down the the middle to the media, or is that is it that the media will swing at anything and they'll keep swinging until they hit something?
	Um you have moments that I mean this is one of the funnier ones that I've seen in in recent days.
	Uh CNN host uh Brianna Keeler was on with Trump's special counsel Michael Cohen asking about remember last week was disarray, this week is shakeup.
	And this is how this exchange between uh CNN host and special counsel Cohen went.
	Please play it.
	Well, let me ask you about this.
	So you say you say it's not a shake up, but you guys are down.
	And it makes sense that there would most of them.
	All of them?
	Says who?
	Polls.
	I just told you I answered your question.
	Okay.
	Which polls?
	All of them.
	Okay.
	And your question is?
	Hey, show me these polls.
	Which polls?
	You got a poll on you?
	You gotta talk about these polls.
	I want to see 'em.
	I want hot copies.
	Polls, where?
	Who polsters, all liars.
	I mean, it was a ma it was amazing.
	I I will say that today there's a Ras Erasmus poll out that says that it's a a two-point race.
	Drudge with the with the link on this.
	Trump only behind two.
	And and then, of course, a lot of my friends, uh, both conservative and liberal will yell at me and say, uh Rasmussen has been having difficulty with getting these things with with getting the polls right in recent months.
	I don't know if that's true or not, but all I know is that it doesn't help when your special counsel's on there and he's like, polls?
	What do you mean polls?
	Like polls like who?
	Like where?
	Well, what polls?
	They go on TV every day talking about who's up, who's down.
	A lot of it's just because they gotta fill airtime and make this seem like a horse race and it's more exciting to people to know and also I think the media kind of wants to gauge that they they want a gauge of how effective they are in completely annihilating uh the the Trump campaign.
	Remember, it's a it's a two, it's a two for one for them, right?
	If they well, it's on an even more levels than that, but if they destroy Donald Trump, his campaign, if they destroy his shot at the at the presidency, they also feel like they're doing tremendous damage to the Republican Brandon Party as well.
	So the more damage they do to Donald, the more it hurts everybody.
	It hurts down ballot, it it hurts everyone.
	And you've seen a tremendous amount of dare I say media discipline on this issue in the sense that they're all they're all locked in.
	They are ready to go.
	And every week there's another Trump uh another Trump sound bite that becomes the biggest news story in the country.
	And how many people even know that there are what is it now, a hundred thousand who are homeless in Louisiana because of flooding?
	No, no, that's that's way less Important to the media than Trump making a comment about the second amendment that some construed one way and others chose to construe another.
	No, that's much less it's much less important to talk about a major disaster that's affecting tens of thousands of people, destroying tens of thousands, destroying many thousands of homes.
	Um they'd rather talk about the latest Trump gaff.
	Because they want to create a widespread perception.
	And unfortunately, they're doing a pretty good job of it that uh i if you don't vote for Hillary Clinton, there's something wrong with you.
	It's not even that they disagree.
	This is not about policy.
	The media is turning this into are you a good person or not?
	If you're a good person, you vote for Hillary.
	The media, of course, has no sense of irony because if you're a good person, you're voting for somebody who clearly has some deep personal deficiencies.
	Clearly not so good with the truth, with ethics, with honesty, uh talks a lot about how she wants to help people, but seems very concerned with helping herself all the time.
	Is there any amount of cash that is that is enough for the Clintons?
	You know, is is there anything is there any office, is there any uh favor done from an office, an office that is entrusted to them by the public that's not in some way for sale when you're talking about the Clintons.
	I I think the answer that's pretty obvious.
	So, but if but somehow if you're a good person, you have to vote for this very personally deficient individual, this this person of uh low character and and low integrity.
	Um but that's the narrative, right?
	They don't even we're not talking about I I may get a chance to get into how Obamacare is continuing to just it's it's getting worse, it's getting worse, it's all a shell game, it's all being propped up, they're using you know spit and duct tape to make this thing somehow cling together and not completely collapse before Obama leaves office.
	You might have some time to get into that, but we're not even talking about policy.
	The media has a very clear agenda, and it's to make sure that everyone knows that not just that Trump is, as they will say time and again, Trump is a racist, Trump is a xenophobe, Trump is a bigot, Trump is just go down all the list of all the words.
	And as importantly, if you vote for Trump, even if you vote for Trump as a protest vote against Hillary, even if you're taking the lesser of two evils approach to this whole thing, which I know a lot of conservatives, and that's how they view it.
	Maybe they don't think Trump is evil, but they're not thrilled.
	I know some of you are thrilled, some of you think he'll make America great again, and that's everyone's entitled to their opinion on this.
	But for those of us that are like, I'm going Trump over Hillary because can't vote for Hillary, and voting for somebody else just feels like a waste of everybody's time.
	And you know, not voting also seems like kind of a too easy way out, but maybe.
	Maybe some will go that route.
	But they don't just want you to think that Trump is a bad guy.
	They want people to believe that a vote for Trump is indicative of a character deficiency, that you're a bad person if you vote for Trump.
	That's really the underlying media narrative with all of this stuff.
	That's why they keep trotting out he'll he'll endanger our national security.
	You know, we're gonna we're gonna have some accidental nuclear war happen if Trump is the president.
	Look at what he says on this.
	Look at what he says on that.
	He's so racist, he's so terrible.
	And by the way, if you don't agree with us, you're just as bad as he is.
	That's the transition.
	That is the pivot point that has happened really it's been coming for a while, but I think it's become more clear after the convention.
	This is for many people, right?
	Why why do people vote?
	A lot of people vote because it's a personal, it's a personal branding exercise in a sense, where they vote because of how it makes them feel, right?
	You vote for one candidate because you think that you're casting your support for somebody who is uh ethical, a constitutionalist, a man or woman of high character and and leadership skills and experience that will help the country.
	You're making a good decision by doing that.
	It makes you feel good to do such a thing.
	For a lot of Democrats, it's well, I I'm voting for Hillary, a lot of a lot of a lot of people it's gonna be.
	Voting for Hillary because it means you're a good person.
	It means you're one of the enlightened ones.
	It means you're progressive, you're thoughtful, you're emotionally Connected to the less fortunate.
	I mean, you don't want to like live next to them or anything.
	I mean, and you want to make sure that there's plenty of money for your bike paths and all the rest of it.
	You know, I mean, let's not get crazy here.
	Let's make sure the zoning laws keeps out the riffraff.
	But I mean, you're emotionally collect uh connected to the less fortunate.
	You just don't want to be anywhere near them if you're a Democrat that, you know, is an elitist voting for Hillary.
	Because the Democrat elite, of course, loves to talk about how much they're concerned about everybody else, as long as they're doing it with your money, your time, or finding some way to make it your problem.
	Then they're very generous.
	Then they're very charitable.
	Then they're just like the Clinton Foundation, somebody else's cash pretending to do great things.
	But it's been a it's been a marvel to watch.
	Even when we've been expecting it that the media would have such a field day and would go after Trump so continuously and with such ferocity and give such a pass to Hillary.
	And it's gone to a point where some of them are open about it now.
	They will say, yes, we are biased against Trump.
	We have to be.
	That's how much they hate this guy.
	And I know for a lot of people out there, that alone is reason to vote for Trump for them because they hate the media so much.
	So then you get into this discussion of, well, should Trump be running against the media or against Hillary or against both.
	I think he's got to focus more on Hillary.
	I know he's got Bannon now at the head of his campaign.
	I don't know Bannon.
	I've been friendly with some of the I am friends with, I should say, and have been friendly with for years, um, some of the Breitbart staff.
	Uh I don't know anything about Bannon, but I uh from what I read, he's a he's a fighter, and this is and even Kellyanne Conway today is saying that Trump is gonna be Trump and this is gonna be a roll up the sleeves uh street fight, politically speaking, everybody.
	This is about words.
	We use our words here.
	Uh politically speaking, it's a street fight, and that's gonna happen all the way to election day, and he's gonna have to go after go after Hillary's record, go after a character.
	I have to say, so far I've seen a much uh more vigorous assault from Trump against the media, which I can kind of understand because I think he also takes it very personally.
	Uh they are trying to destroy uh his character.
	They are trying to make him a hated figure, not just somebody who can't win the election, but they're really trying to make him a loathed and ostracized human being in America.
	That's what the media's real goal is here.
	So I understand why he has a particular animus towards them, they have a particular animus towards him.
	But he's gotta focus on Hillary.
	He's gotta convince people that even if they're not in love with Trump, even if they don't think he's gonna be able to deliver on all of his promises, he's better than Hillary because Hillary is, to put it in simple terms, the worst.
	There you go.
	We should start making bumper stickers.
	Hillary, the worst 2016.
	800-282-2882, Buck Sexton in for Rush, Limbaugh.
	We have a whole lot more show.
	I'll be back right after the break.
	Buck Sexton here, InfoRush on the EIB.
	So the Iran cash, hostages swap.
	I don't want to say ransom payment because people get all upset.
	How dare you?
	In fact, for a couple of days the story was calling it a ransom payment is dangerous.
	I'm like, no, no, I think actually paying a ransom payment is dangerous.
	Calling it a ransom payment is just recognizing reality.
	Although uh in the in this instance, they're trying to once again redefine a term in order to win a debate that they otherwise could not.
	More reporting on this from the Wall Street Journal.
	This is from uh from just yeah, earlier this morning.
	New details of the 400 million U.S. payment to Iran earlier this year depict a tightly scripted exchange, specifically time to the release of several American prisoners held in Iran.
	That I just that's crazy, Mr. Snerdley.
	It's almost like they wouldn't give the Americans back until the cash was being transferred.
	Which I know, and and people say, oh, we owed Iran the money.
	And I say, yeah, we've owed them the money since 1979.
	We also owed it to a different regime, and owe the regime that we supposedly owe it to now, took a whole bunch of our people hostage for a long time, has killed our people overseas through its proxy Hezbollah and through Shia militias in Iraq, has been a really, really bad group of dudes for a long time.
	What are they gonna do?
	They're gonna turn us upside down, you know, they're gonna shake the change out of Uncle Sam's pockets?
	I don't think so.
	We we we owed them, we owed them the cash.
	We owed them the cash.
	That's what they say.
	And it had to be transferred in the same day.
	You know, it's a sad thing to see when you've got uh uh John Kirby over at the State Department, um, who is what is the admiral is Admiral Kirby, right?
	Not General Kirby.
	Uh and he said that what I can tell you is there's no secret about it.
	The president spoke about this in January.
	Uh uh it was a completely separate process, though simultaneously done.
	The timing is all coincidental.
	That was the that's State Department spokesman, that's the official word.
	It's a coincidence.
	I mean, this is a coincidence of all coincidences.
	This is winning the Powerball jackpot twice.
	I don't think it's I don't think it goes that way, guys.
	I don't think that's how it happens.
	I don't think that this is a coincidence.
	And now they're saying, well, it was totally allowed.
	And I I say to myself, wait a second, if if Obama can authorize $400 million to be transferred into a different currency, because otherwise he'd be violated if he can authorize that, why can't he can't authorize a wire transfer?
	Oh, because that would violate U.S. law.
	No, if you get around it, you're all you'd also be violating the law.
	So the president decided that because he's the president, he can do this.
	He's the commander in chief, he's just gonna do it.
	And he did.
	But once again, we find ourselves in a place where when dealing with the Democratic Party, we're also dealing with the sort of evolution of a debate that's not about policy, but it's just about language now.
	It's not about the connotation or the interpretation, it's about the basic meaning of a word.
	What is the meaning of is.
	What is a ransom payment?
	Oh no, it's not a ransom payment.
	It's uh it's an advance against future earnings of the Iranian regime based upon the 10-year framework of uh the joint plan of No, it's a ransom payment, actually.
	And this sets a very bad precedent.
	And the Obama administration doesn't want to accept that it that it sets this precedent, but it clearly does.
	And oh, by the way, the Iranians have seized additional hostages, they seize additional people, they keep doing this.
	Uh, the Iranians are bad news.
	This administration doesn't seem to think so.
	I think that if we're nice to them, if we give them money, if we try to treat them as a respected actor in the international community, everything will be fine.
	But the fact of the matter is that Iran is not going to learn any lessons from a process that gets it whatever it wants.
	In this case, the cash.
	So yeah, the timing was that the cash had to be in the air before the hostages could be uh released.
	Um the four hundred million, the four hundred million dollars had to be transferred.
	Now, you can look at this very basically.
	If the hostages would not have been released, if the hostages would not have been released, then what would have or rather if the cash had not been released, would the hostages have been released?
	If the answer is no, then it's a ransom payment.
	And that's what it is.
	They argue with us about this stuff.
	And oh, by the way, you can add in to this that now the Russians are flying missions against well, various targets in Syria and using Irani, this is also reported on this week, using Iranian air bases to do it.
	So now you got the Russians with this close military cooperation going on with the Iranian regime.
	We know that the Russians and the Iranians are on the ground in Syria, and now we've got Russian planes flying from Iranian bases.
	Does anybody think this is going to complicate matters in the future when Iran decides to cheat and then eventually break this nuclear deal?
	Russian planes on the ground there.
	Oh, I wonder if there could be just just theoretically, let's just play this one out for a second.
	Is it possible that the Russians may help the Iranians with a bit of military technology?
	I don't know, maybe maybe with some missiles.
	Maybe.
	Maybe they'll go to Home Depot.
	I don't know if they'll have enough time.
	I mean, this is the sort of thing that you could expect to happen in the future.
	And yet the administration is already doing a victory lap, and they think that by arguing over the definition of a ransom payment, you know, this is really this is a classic Obamaism, which is that there is no objective truth.
	We're not even having a debate over policy.
	We're having a debate over the meeting of a couple of words.
	Because they don't like what the real meeting is.
	So they just change it.
	It's like penalty, tax, all the same thing.
	All the same thing.
	If you like your four hundred million, you can keep it.
	More coming.
	The buck is back, and I'm very pleased to be bringing on Nicholas Irving now.
	Nick spent six years in the Army Special Operations Third Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, serving from demolition assaulter to master sniper.
	He was the first African American to serve as a sniper in his battalion, is now the owner of Hard Shoot.
	Uh and he is also a best selling author.
	His first was The Reaper, and now his latest book out now at Amazon and find bookstores everywhere is Way of the Reaper, My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper.
	Nick Irving, a pleasure, sir.
	Great to have you on.
	Oh, much appreciated.
	Thank you.
	So Nick, tell me a bit about Way of the Reaper.
	What do you get into in this your your your second book, which I'm sure is on its way to being yet another best seller?
	Uh pretty much I get into where I left off at.
	The last book, The Reaper, only covered about three and a half months of my career.
	Um Way of the Reaper covers the entire six diplomas that I uh went on, three to Iraq and three to Afghanistan, and all the missions that stand out and all the great guys and uh heroes that I had a chance to uh to serve with.
	So it really dives deep into that and also gets uh into the mentality and the afterlife of what it's like uh being a civilian again.
	I have a I went through and many others.
	I just have a confession to make, Nick.
	I was up late last night.
	I'm supposed to be just prepping for this show, but I was actually reading.
	I got about sixty pages into your book last night, and it's it's gripping reading.
	It's it's fantastic uh fantastic stuff you you've pulled together here.
	Really amazing stories.
	Um tell me tell everybody about uh band of brothers and the hotel party.
	Yeah, Band of Brothers and a hotel party.
	Um, like I said, there are two missions that that really stood out, two out of the ten.
	Um hotel party, getting into that, that was the first time I actually saw one of my brothers um get hit by an enemy uh sniper or an assaulter.
	Um we were having a problem, or the regular army was the one oh first, we had this huge problem with um the rules of engagement, and every time they went down this route, the street route, Route Tampa, they would get engaged by this hotel full of uh insurgents and and and whatnot, and their rules of engagement at the time were to just blow through, drive by, and move on to base.
	Well, they got tired of getting hit and their guys getting hit, so they went to our compound and pretty much told us to alleviate the problem if we could.
	Um our rules of engagement were a little bit different, um, being a special operations unit.
	So we dressed up like 'em, uh, we put their patches on our uniforms, rode out in vehicles, and uh one of the very few daylight missions that we've ever uh been on, 99% of our ops are at night time, and we roll out during the day.
	I'm a driver with a um M4 in the little uh space beside me.
	We get ambushed, we take contact from that hotel, and I'm pretty sure they thought they were gonna um just you know put a little scratch on us and we keep on moving, but we decided to stop and uh we turned our fifty cows on to them, and every assaulter, thirty-five guys assaulted that building and returned fire.
	Uh we had Pio helicopters come in.
	They all went dry to the point where uh their pilots had to hang out while flying the helicopter and do strafing runs with M4s.
	I went dry, the fifty cows went dry, and then we dropped a five hundred pound bomb on that little uh that that little uh hornet's nest of insurgents, and the regular army never had that problem ever again.
	Wow.
	Um, Nick, uh it's it's incredible reading reading the the pages last night and and looking through more of the of of the book this morning, some of the things that you've been through.
	You you also get into some of the mindset of of being a sniper and also the camaraderie uh with those in the special operations community had.
	I just wanted you to speak to some of that that's in the book as well.
	Oh, yeah, definitely.
	Um the camaraderie it's what most of us, if not all of us, miss.
	Um I don't miss the you know, getting shot at, I don't miss taking lives or anything like that.
	I was just a regular guy with the gun placed in the right place at the right time.
	Um, you know, no hero on my part, uh just a young 17-18, all the way to 24, 25 year old kid out there working with uh who I call legends in in the community.
	Um it was an honor to work with those guys.
	But the mindset, you know, I wasn't a perfect guy.
	I was just uh I graduated with the one point seven GPA from high school.
	I got into a lot of trouble as a kid, and it was one of those things where I look back at it and who knows, if someone would have told me I would have been here today, I would have, you know, definitely laughed that off.
	But like I said, I'm just a regular guy.
	Um the m I guess the the heart of the book and why this all started was to express emotions or get emotions that I had, you know, after getting out and the struggles that I went through on paper.
	It started off as a journal and tell the stories of of the guys that I had a chance to serve with.
	Um but the mindset, it's uh pretty much a a shutoff valve or a switch.
	Um that switch came from years and years and countless hours of training, but at the end of the day, we all make mistakes, and I really get into all the mistakes that I made and the lessons learned.
	So if a kid, you know, who's eighteen years old wanting to go into that community or special operations, um, he picks up the book.
	He won't look at me as a big incredible Hulk Superman type guy.
	You know, he can actually relate to me, and you know what, this guy made mistakes, and you know, there's always two things you're gonna learn from someone else's story what to do or what not to do, and I just wanted to to uh express that.
	And I also went to the section of the book where you talk about Hell Knight in Hellman Province in Afghanistan.
	Tell us about tell us about that, Nick.
	Oh, yeah, hell night in Hellman Province.
	That was uh pretty much a run and gun fight.
	We were ambushed every uh twenty-five, hundred yards.
	Um Hellman Province at the time, the Taliban, all the Taliban commanders, they went to this place called Marja uh before the big push in two thousand late two thousand and nine with the Marine Corps.
	Um my unit was tasked with uh, you know, we had thirty-five, forty guys.
	We were tasked with clearing out this entire area, as many as we could before the Marines pushed in.
	So Hell Knight in Helmut Province was essentially just a uh running gun going, you know, pretty close to going black on ammo, um hellacious fire fight, all the times that I've been scared.
	Uh it was a life-changing experience for me, and that's what I guess uh where a lot of my mindset came from, you know, or where I apply it today.
	It it came from that night in Hellman Province and in Marsha.
	Um I look back and I often think about those nights, Hell Knight, and it's one of those things that um I don't know how we made it out alive, or you know, uh yeah, looking back at you know, guys coming over around with bullet holes in their clothes after the after the operation.
	Um You called in ordinance on your own position, right?
	Oh, yeah, called an ordinance on my own position.
	I called in for a 500 pound bomb um to be dropped on targets, they denied that.
	So I called in a 500 pound bomb to be dropped on my position and the other uh was it five guys that I was with, the reconnaissance team and sniper team, um, they denied that due to uh the rules of engagement.
	We could not accept anything other than a point zero one collateral damage.
	So uh we made the call to go ahead and pull the pin on a grenade and jump on it to uh take our lives.
	We were about to be overrun at one point in time, and luckily that did not happen.
	Looked over my sh my uh left shoulder and saw a really good friend, Corporal Benjamin Cobb.
	He came in and you know, saved all of our lives and five minutes after that, leaving that element out.
	I watched him take two rounds to his uh flamoral artery uh while in a chest high ravine and essentially bleed out.
	But you made it out and many of your other men made it out because of his heroics.
	Exactly.
	We all made it out.
	No one else died.
	Um lot of guys or a few guys got shot, but he continued his fight.
	Um he wanted to make it back to at least see his mom or talk to his mom.
	So he fought and fought for seven days while on life support, and once he got, you know, a chance to hear his mom or um somewhat be state side.
	We were in Germany at that point in time.
	Uh that's when uh say he gave up on the fight, but his fight was over.
	Now, Nick, you fought uh bravely and heroically over there, and then you came back over here and had to deal with the readjustment that many many veterans have to go through.
	Uh you've been very open about facing some of those demons and and and handling those uh those pressures and that uh reacclamation uh to the to the home front side of things.
	Uh what would you want to say?
	I mean, you've got a lot of people listening now who are either active duty or veterans or families of active duty and veterans as well.
	Uh what would you want to say to them about about your sort of your words about that process and what they should always keep in mind?
	Uh, starting off, um, keep a record Of everything, all your medical records.
	Um something I did not do is not gonna say I'm not gonna say it was looked down upon, but you kind of look like uh, you know, a chump or something like that with this type A personality.
	Don't do that.
	Don't be ashamed to admit your problems.
	I got out and that itch was still there where I wanted to, you know, seek combat.
	That's all I knew.
	So I picked up contracting.
	That didn't last too long, and I remember uh self-medicating for a couple of years to the point where I woke up one morning to go to work and there was no car in the driveway.
	A few days later, I had a notice where I was about to get a foreclosure on my house.
	Um, and that struggle went on and on.
	Um the VA really didn't help out as much, but what really started everything off, and what really started me on the right path was talking about it.
	Being able to communicate and talk to others about the problems that I have and not diving so much into the self-medication.
	Uh there are things and there are groups and there are organizations out there that do want to help, but it has to start with the individual, and that's you you know, talking about it.
	There's nothing wrong with it.
	You're not gonna look be looked down upon, but getting that emotion out.
	We've been, you know, holding on to that emotion for so long and so many years it gets built up and it's not healthy, so definitely talk about it and don't be ashamed about it.
	Nicholas Irving is the author of Way of the Reaper, My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper.
	It is just out now in bookstores, available on Amazon and elsewhere.
	Nick, thank you for your service, and thank you so much for calling in.
	It's an honor to have you.
	It's an honor to know you.
	Thank you, sir.
	Thank you as well.
	Appreciate it.
	All right.
	Nick is the he's the greatest guy, by the way.
	He's the most mellow, humble, cool, kind.
	He's a he's a phenomenal human being.
	So and the book is the book is a gr a great read.
	It's powerful.
	The title is Way of the Reaper, My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper.
	Uh Nick Irving, he's just he's he's the man.
	I don't know what else to say.
	He's just the man.
	Um go into a break here.
	Buck Sexton and for Rush.
	Be right back.
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	I'm fine, thank you.
	How are you?
	Oh, I'm fan.
	Um, as you say, my name is Gail and I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina, and my stage name is Jukebox Queen.
	I am a person who is a fan of Hillary Clinton.
	I'm writing a song about a call, let's put a woman president in the White House, and it's on YouTube and I'm on Google.
	I want to say that since 1919 to 2016, 97 years, women have had the right to vote, but no woman has been president.
	And a lot of people do associate Miss Hillary Clinton as a person who relates to the sister, our mother, our daughters, and all that.
	But Mr. Trump, I think he's a smart man too.
	He's a gambler who put his stuff in this game.
	And so we can't call him stupid.
	He is a very smart man.
	Miss Hillary Clinton is a lady that we're like the suffragettes right now.
	I am a woman who is 67 years old.
	We want to see a woman be the woman in the white house the madam.
	We want the world to see that women of America are the smartest.
	When many women have banks, women have everything in America.
	But we do not want to be men.
	Miss Hillary Clinton has always been a woman who has stood behind her man.
	And many women could not have stood behind their man in the difficult times Miss Hillary Clinton did.
	Well, madam, I I I respect your your honesty as well as your as well as your considerate uh your considerate tone as you're talking about sort of both sides of of the political aisle.
	Um I I look, I I understand the urge to have the the first female president.
	It it is something that uh that appeals.
	I I think it honestly appeals to all Americans.
	I just can't get behind this particular candidacy uh candidate for the presidency, despite the fact, or rather um even though she would be the first female president, but I I understand why why many folks out there would be enthusiastic about it, and it is it's uh interesting to hear that you while you'll support Hillary, you do think Trump is uh is a smart guy.
	A lot of the Hillary supporters tend to absolutely hate Donald Trump with the burning fire of a thousand sons.
	Um but uh Gail, it was just nice of you to call in and share your thoughts.
	I appreciate it.
	Hope everything's going well down in North Carolina.
	Let's take uh Carolyn in Richmond, Indiana.
	I didn't know there was a Richmond, Indiana.
	I learned something new every time I'm on the show.
	What's up, Carolyn?
	Oh, hello, but nice to talk to you today.
	Nice to talk to you.
	Well, I'm gonna switch this back to Hillary.
	In my family and friends circle, we have a debate on what would happen in the uh scenario that Hillary becomes incapacitated due to all of these things we see that might be um a debilitating illness or the email or any such other scandal thing that she might be associated with.
	Uh say January, say she wins, heaven forbid, um it she wins uh the election, and then come January 19th, she's incapacitated, and she's totally just cannot be uh sworn in.
	And she's out of it.
	Then the vice president would be it would be Tim Kane would have to be sworn in as the commander in chief if in this scenario that were to happen.
	So he doesn't technically have to ever have served under Clinton as anything besides uh vice president elect before he can ascend to presidency.
	Yeah, I guess.
	But uh again, I I would I would first, before we get into any of this, I I don't think that this is something first of all, uh we wish all of the presidential candidates and all the presidents uh you know, past and and present, uh all of the good health and time with their family that they could possibly have.
	Um but uh I I think it's very unlikely that the stuff that I see about about Hillary's health.
	Look, health is a l health was a legitimate question in terms of uh when when Dick Cheney was gonna be the vice president, people brought up his his heart condition.
	And when I say it's legitimate, maybe people disagree with that or not, but the media pretended it was legitimate then, so clearly now this can be brought up.
	Um we've got what what's the age difference between Trump and Hillary?
	Is it two two years, I think?
	It's something like that.
	I think it's two years.
	So they're they're both um uh uh uh of that generation.
	Uh so they're you know, they're up there and up there in years.
	Uh people can make their own decisions about whether they think that health is a is a real concern on on either side.
	I don't I don't see anything that leads me to believe that it would be.
	Um but as to your question, yeah, my assumption is that if if Hillary wins and then and then for some for some reason for health reasons, or let's just say for personal reasons, she decided to step down.
	Maybe it's legal, whatever it may be.
	Uh yeah, Tim Kane would be the president, and then you'd have a guy who does a really bad Trump impersonation as uh president of the United States.
	So Tim Kane, let me tell you, that debate between Kane and Pence, not exactly gonna be uh blockbuster, but uh it'll it'll happen.
	It'll be a thing that it'll be a thing that happens.
	Carolyn, thanks for calling in.
	Um I'm gonna go into a break.
	Go to a break.
	Buck sex to in front.
	Yeah, why not?
	Bucksack in and for rush, I'll be right back.
	Buck Sexton here in for Rush.
	We are rocking it on the EIB.
	Always a good time.
	Let's take Vinny in Jacksonville.
	What's up, Vinny?
	I'm good, sir.
	How are you?
	Uh not bad.
	Uh I'm I'm a reformed democrat, and one of the things I'd like to say about that is that Hillary is not to be trusted, and it's not just off of anything recent.
	Benghazi and and the servers with the emails and whatnot.
	I mean, look at the character of the people she supported.
	Her husband.
	I mean, when her husband was in office, this guy perjured himself under oath and with the Monica Lewinsky thing, it's obvious that women should not support a woman like Hillary Rodham Clinton because she kept a person who literally lied not only to the public, but obviously her.
	I mean, should we run a black light over the skirts of every girl in Washington?
	I mean, really.
	Uh this just says to me that women's libs should not support anything like this.
	Uh I mean, what what is what do you think about that?
	I think that the Clintons have been well, I think it I think that Hillary was complicit in a lot of her husband's uh uh abuse and harassment of women, and that everyone wants to sort of o overlook that now.
	Uh there's even some blogger or somebody who wrote yesterday that just because Bill Clinton was accused of rape, even if he did it, I think, it doesn't make him a doesn't make him an irredeemable person or something.
	I'm like, okay, well, I guess that's the uh the point of view.
	I think it was on I forget, it was on maybe it was on Woncat or something, it was on one of those sites.
	Uh but Vinny, thanks for thanks for calling in.
	We're pretty much uh at the break here.
	I don't know if I should talk about this or not, that the U.S. swimmers that apparently now lied about a about a robbery, this is from the New York Post to cover up a s a brawl at a gas station.

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